Joshua Seidel, who contributes to the Scribe at the Forward, is a self-identified Jewish supporter of Trump and the alt-right, as well as author of the sentence, “I have thick skin and a tolerance for others.” So in the spirit of healthy debate and open-mindedness, I’m going to respectfully ask what was up with his…
It is “absolutely” possible for Steve Bannon to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time, concluded a Huffington Post article about the ex-Breitbart chief who’s now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. Several Jewish organizations strongly criticized Bannon’s appointment, announced Nov. 13, on the grounds that he said he had made Breitbart into an online…
As Donald Trump takes his first steps toward staffing his administration, he’s confronting us with yet another conundrum: What to do when the leader of the world’s greatest democracy makes Steve Bannon his designated chief strategist? Bannon, the man who took over the right-wing provocateur website Breitbart News and turned it into the central bulletin…
After a warm impromptu welcome from Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, Steve Bannon may have found another Israeli defender. Moti Kahana, an Israeli-American businessman who has spent the past five years working on humanitarian relief for Syrian refugees, is willing to vouch for the former Breitbart chief, who, according to Kahana, not only…
Steve Bannon has a new defender: Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States. Dermer was at Trump Tower Thursday afternoon and when leaving the building, escorted by Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway, he stopped for a short statement to the press pool waiting in the lobby. Unprompted, Dermer chose to speak out about Bannon. “We…
Once upon a time, Steve Bannon, former executive of the far-right news site Breitbart News and appointed chief strategist to Donald Trump, bought a piece of the hit television show “Seinfeld.” In what would later turn out to be an incredibly lucrative move, Bannon was hired by Westinghouse Electric to help determine what they should…
— Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called on President-elect Donald Trump to withdraw his appointment of Stephen Bannon to a major White House advisory post. Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, in a statement issued Wednesday decried Bannon’s appointment earlier this week as chief strategist, calling him a “racist individual.” In urging Trump to cut Bannon loose,…
Steve Bannon, the controversial hard-right media provocateur and newly appointed chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump, is set to attend the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in Manhattan on Sunday — and his appearance is setting off a political firestorm in the Jewish communal world. The Anti-Defamation League has called Bannon “hostile to core…
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